New estimates of the burden of acute community-acquired infections among older people with diabetes mellitus: A retrospective cohort study using linked electronic health records

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 606-614

  Mcdonald, H I ^a   Nitsch, D ^a   Millett, E R C ^a   Sinclair, A ^b   Thomas, S L ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INSULIN TREATMENT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPLICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GREAT BRITAIN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84898904481     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dme.12384     Document Type: Article

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